Viceroy of Kush

Viceroy of Kush in hieroglyphs
Sa-nisut-n-Kush Sꜣ-nswt-n-Kꜣš King's Son of Kush

The Kingdom of Kush based in Lower Nubia was a province of Ancient Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE. During this period, the polity was ruled by a viceroy who reported directly to the Egyptian Pharaoh. It is believed that the Egyptian 25th dynasty were descendants of these viceroys, and so were the dynasties that ruled independent Kush until the fourth century CE.

List of Viceroys

Below is a list of viceroys mainly based on a list assembled by George Reisner.

Eighteenth dynasty

Usersatet, relief at Sehel

Amenhotep called Huy King's Son of Kush under Pharaoh Tutankhamen

• Ahmose called Si-Tayit under Ahmose I ^[1]
• Ahmose called Turo under Egyptian Pharaohs Amenhotep I and Thutmose I
• Seni under Thutmose I and Thutmose II
• Penre under Hatshepsut
• Inebny/Amenemnekhu, under Hatshepust and Thutmose III
• Nehi underThutmose III
• Usersatet under Amenhotep II
• Amenhotep under Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III
• Merymose under Amenhotep III
• Tuthmosis under Akhenaten
• Amenhotep called Huy under Tutankhamun
• Paser I under Ay and Horemheb

Nineteenth dynasty

• Amenemopet under Seti I and Ramesses II
• Yuny under Seti I and Ramesses II
• Heqanakht under Ramesses II
• Paser II under Ramesses II
• Huy under Ramesses II^[2]
• Setau under Ramesses II
• Anhotep under Ramesses II^[3]
• Mernudjem? possibly a Viceroy under Ramesses II^[4]
• Messuwy under Merneptah, perhaps Amenemses, and Seti II
• Seti under Siptah

Twentieth dynasty

• Hori I under Setnakhte
• Hori II under Ramesses III and Ramesses IV
• Siese under Ramesses VI
• Nahihor under Ramesses VII and perhaps Ramesses VIII
• Wentawat under Ramesses IX
• Ramessesnakht under Ramesses IX^[5]
• Pinehesy under Ramesses XI
• Setmose under Ramesses XI^[6]
• Piankh under Ramesses XI
• Herihor under Ramesses XI

Twenty-first dynasty

• Neskhons under Siamun

References

1. Edwards, The Cambridge ancient history, Volumes 1-3, 2000, pg 299 and 348
2. Kitchen, K.A., Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
3. Kitchen, K.A., Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
4. Kitchen, K.A., Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
5. P. Pamminger, Göttinger Miszellen 137 (1993), 79-86
6. Briant Bohleke, An Ex Voto of the Previously Unrecognized Viceroy Setmose, Göttinger Miszellen 85 (1985), 13-24

Further Reading

• George A. Reisner, The Viceroys of Ethiopia, JEA 6 (1920), 28-55